I am working on a general theory. A general theory attempts to account for everything. The most obvious example of a general theory attempt is in Physics with its goal to deduce everything to a single theory. I am not a physicist though, I am a philosopher (student of). I am approaching the creation of a general theory through the ontological (way of being) and epistemological (way of being known). Studying how exactly the physicist gets to his formula. I have just entered the writing phrase of this project and am hoping of using this site in both writing my paper and getting feed back on it. Every post is going to be a work in progress, a rough draft. Hopefully I will be consistent and regular in my writings. And hopefully you will enjoy seeing the paper materialize before you.
My studies in the cultivation of this project range from pre-history to early greek thought (Pre-socratic, Socratic/Aristotelian) to contemporary philosophy (Descartes, Hume, Kant) to the more modern fields of thought: analytic (Wittgenstein, Sellars, Quine), Continental (Hegel, Heidegger, Bataille), and the ides of Physics (Relativity, Quantum and Chaos). In a way I am trying to cram all of the above into one paper. So, your going to get an enjoyable mouthful This paper should slowly develop throughout the next 3 months ending just in time for me to graduate. Exciting!
I hope you enjoy.
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It is my belief that a metaphysical system can be created out of three principles: growth, excess, and consumption. I further believe that these three principles reside within every system. These three principles when combined can account for the creation of space and time, being, meaning (though, arising from no meaning) and communication: language and politics. Further these principles are hierarchical, they develop into a story. For there to be consumption, there first must be an excess, for there to be an excess, there first must be growth. This hierarchy is therefore an economy, a general economy, first developed by Bataille in his Accursed Share. It is not of Marxist origins, though, it gives Marx his origins. Monetary value is not present in this general system, though, monetary value has the possibility to arise in this system. This general economy is a relational economy, like that of the dust to the wind. One cannot attempt to think of this system reflecting outward from a contemporary modern economy, thinking about reserve and credit, corporations and nations, etc. To do so is to miss the beginning.
Growth, excess, and consumption can be thought of in other names. Growth: The plentiful giver. Excess: The economy of subsistence. Consumption: The economy of extravagance. To be noted again is the evolution of the story. As growth leads to excess and excess leads to consumption, the plentiful giver becomes its own consumer of the economy of subsistence as the economy of extravagance. Excess in the economy of extravagance becomes the serpent eating its own tail, Ouroboros. As the consumption in the economy of excess occurs, the serpent growing larger from its continual eating, it needs to continue consuming more of the excess to survive.
Life is a luxury, as is death. Life is a burden, death a gift, freeing a being from consumption, allowing the Ourobors to close its mouth, to stop eating itself. Beings are components of the economy of extravagance, so they are always excessive. Though, this talk of excessiveness should not be considered as a negative or dreary matter, it is merely how things are and should be accepted. Life occurs in the most marvelous and surreal places. Beings are fragile. Beings consume non-beings, which are components of the economy of subsistence, so are always stable, continuing to grow. The notion of excess: beings cannot be where there is no excess to consume, i.e. an ecosystem. The excess created by the gift. The plentiful giver that is always giving, the Sun, shining even at night, showing its presence in illuminating the moon, shining to shine on, asking for no thing in return.
Components in the hierarchy have now shown themselves. In growth, the necessary presence of light, in excess, the stable presence of non-beings that grow where they can grow, in consumption, life and death.
This writing will develop in this what has shown themselves manner. The first section will be exploring light. The second section will be exploring excess. In this second section exploration of space will be developed. In the third section, consumption. In explaining consumption, it will be necessary to combine it with the second section, the combination needed to discuss the types of consumptive beings, because beings are in space. A discussion of the types of being will arise, exploring the animal and the “human”. Externalization will be discussed, followed by the birth of the tool, this believed to be what makes Human human, different from animal. With the discussions of tools discussion of games will take place. In discussions of games, discussion of dialogue, thus relations. Pace will be explored in reference to the pace of the game. The final section of this third compartment will be that of the ontic picture that follows. This believed to be the creation of both “I” and the awareness of relating.
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